Clock Cottage, And Stable Cottage At Brickendon Bury

Clock Cottage and Stable Cottage at Brickendon Bury is a stable block that has been converted into two houses. The building, marked with '1894 G & S P' on an armorial panel, was constructed for George Pearson and converted after 1971. It features red brick with a blue brick plinth and window sills, a moulded sandstone entrance archway, and an armorial panel on the right-hand buttress. The first floor has a half-timbered black-and-white design and a recessed top of the tower. The steep red tile roofs are complemented by black painted bargeboards with pendants.

The structure is an irregular L-shaped block that faces south, fronting the main drive. It has twin gables and canted small bay windows on the lower, 1½-storey left-hand part known as Stable Cottage. Adjacent to this is a four-storey tower with a cross-roof. The ground floor features a tunnel vaulted carriageway with a tall pointed stone entrance arch situated between projecting brick buttresses. There is a semi-circular rear arch leading to the yard.

Prominently, a large segmental-pedimented clock projects from the upper part of the front, situated below a balustraded balcony and above a four-light leaded mullioned window over the arch. A polygonal stair turret projects from the east side of the tower, topped with an open timber stage that houses a bell and has a tiled and lead cap roof with an enlarged knob finial. Attached to the corner is a two-storey house known as Clock Cottage, which features a projecting gable at the corner with a bracketed oriel window above a canted bay window, and four-bay casements with small panes. The east gable end has a large projecting chimney with an expanded base. The carriageway and yard are paved with stable paviors.